The stitch of a book is its words.

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink.

Wanting is the beginning of getting.

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

Memory is the only friend of grief.

If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.

You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?

It is only when people don’t know history well that they judge the present so blindly in ignorance!

Be a smart learner. Learn from your mistakes and adjust your behavior accordingly.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

The search for something can prove as interesting as finding it.

Sure, Kill Bill is a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down.

The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.

It's nice to have people interested about a show that you're involved in. It's what actors want.

Why don't you do the world a favour. Pull your bottom lip up over your head and swallow.